If you're going to take them from theirparents and then have them sleep in the office, that'snot a good living arrangement at all," said attorneyPaolo Annino, who has filed a lawsuit in north Floridaon behalf of nine children who claim they were forcedto sleep in service centers for as long as two weeks."

Prosecutors said they were told that any military intervention would result in the death of the remaining hostages, who were forcedto march through the mountainous jungle to a hostage camp protected by armed guards.